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Now Playing to the State Theatre

A fading actor (Michael Keaton) best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected. Lindsay Duncan, Zach Galifianakis, and Edward Norton co-star in this black comedy from Biutiful director Alejandro González Iñárritu.

“It’s powerfully clear that they all worked their asses of to make this complicated thrill ride look effortless. The result is one of the best times you’ll have at the movies this year– — heck might even be the best movie this year.”
- RogerEbert.com

“It is exhilarating moviemaking, an out-of-the-blue masterwork that ranks as one of the best films of not just the year, but the decade, the century.”
- Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

“How can you not be in awe of the sheer physical achievement, of the intricate choreography of the actors and the camera, of the gung ho performances? When it ends you go, ‘Whew!’ It’s a triumph of vacuous virtuosity.”
- David Edelstein, New York Magazine

]]>http://www.statetheatretc.org/holiday/feed/0STILL ALICE – Now Playing at The Bijou by the Bayhttp://www.statetheatretc.org/2014/10/11/interstellar-opens-november-7-at-the-bijou-by-the-bay/
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OSCAR WINNER FOR BEST ACTRESS: JULIANNE MOORE

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her struggle to stay connected to who she once was is frightening, heartbreaking, and inspiring.

“Ms. Moore shares her journey with boundless generosity. She makes you feel what it’s like to lose the wind beneath your wings.”
- Rex Reed, New York Observer

“The triumph of Still Alice is that it’s not about an illness; it’s about a person.”
- Stephanie Zacharek

“Julianne Moore guides us through the tragic arc of how it must feel to disappear before one’s own eyes, accomplishing one of her most powerful performances by underplaying the scenario.”
- Peter Debruge, Variety

“You won’t see a better performance by an actress on film this year than Julianne Moore as a linguistics professor struggling to hold onto her personality after a diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer’s in the unforgettable drama Still Alice.”
- Lou Lumenick, New York Post

“The movie is harrowing, as any story about Alzheimer’s should be, but Moore gives it an extra layer of gravity and heartbreaking inevitability.”
- Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald

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The movie event a foreign dictator didn’t want you to see (and hacked into Sony Pictures’ sensitive data stream to prevent from being released) is opening at the Bijou by the Bay this Christmas! The action-comedy “The Interview” stars James Franco as an entertainment reporter and Seth Rogan as his producer working for a popular celebrity tabloid TV show called “Skylark Tonight.” When the two discover that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is a fan of the show, they land an interview with him in an attempt to legitimize themselves as journalists. But as the two prepare to travel to Pyongyang, their plans change when the CIA recruits them, perhaps the two least-qualified men imaginable, to assassinate Kim Jong-un.

“In their third film together, Franco and Rogen have a terrific banter and an underlay of affection. This kind of rapport is rare.”
- Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News

“‘The Interview’ confirms Rogen as the most ambitious mainstream comedian in Hollywood.”
- David Ehrlich, Time Out New York

“It may be profane and sloppy and silly and insulting to the North Koreans, but ‘The Interview’ is a guilty pleasure.”
- Bruce Kirkland, Jam! Movies

“‘The Interview’ is laugh out loud funny all the way through, and once again proves that Rogen and Goldberg will do anything, no matter how dark, for a big laugh, and that character is just as important as punchlines in their work.”
- Drew McWeeney, Hit Flix

Directed by David Fincher and based upon the global bestseller by Gillian Flynn – unearths the secrets at the heart of a modern marriage. On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his beautiful wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick’s portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?

Following the film, stay for a an exclusive Q&A with “Gone Girl” author Gillian Flynn.

“The Big Lebowski” is the Coen Brothers cult masterpiece, a Raymond Chandler-esque comedy crime caper that pivots around a case of mistaken identity complicated by extortion, double-crosses, deception, embezzlement, sex, pot, and gallons of White Russians (made with fresh cream, please). The Dude (Jeff Bridges) is one of the laziest men in LA, who enjoys hanging with his bowling buddies, pompous security-store owner Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) and mild-mannered ex-surfer Donny (Steve Buscemi). The Dude’s life takes an alternate route the afternoon two goons break into his threadbare Venice CA bungalow, rough him up, and urinate on his living room rug. Why? Because Jackie Treehorn (Ben Gazzara) is owed money by the wife of a certain Jeff Lebowski. However, the goons grabbed the wrong Jeff Lebowski. And it goes from there. “I guess that’s the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin’ itself.”

Day of the Dude Celebration! Free popcorn for anyone in a bathrobe (or other Lebowski related costume)!

“The Book of Life,” a vibrant fantasy-adventure, tells the legend of Manolo, a conflicted hero and dreamer who sets off on an epic quest through magical, mythical and wondrous worlds in order to rescue his one true love and defend his village.

This film focuses on the zany Sycamore household. At the Sycamores, everyone does just what he or she pleases. The one normal member of the household, Alice Sycamore, is in love with Tony Kirby. Naturally, when the stuffy Kirbys come to the Sycamores for dinner, the event is a disaster.